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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Vietnam Ride
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hahmule
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Rice paddys a couple of hours out of Hanoi
Yours truly, on a genuine Russian Ural. This is not a sissyfied western model. The tires still say "made in USSR" on them.
Finally, some limestone baby!
hahmule
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Water buffalo, they are everywhere.
A bike shop, they are everywhere, just look for a sign that says XE May, pronounced she may, you have a bike fixed in the remotest parts of VN
VN butcher stand
hahmule
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did I mention it was hot?
Lady in a small Zhou village, she was really friendly.
Hey mister! Want to buy a Civet? 20$, we set him free.
Hmong Market
Micro hydro electric power. The unit is upside down. One end goes into a flow of water, the other generates electricity. Brilliant!
hahmule
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Nick and Effy are from Greece. Note how the hawkers glom onto the women.
photo of VN construction techniques. Note bamboo mold in foreground.
Russian SUV
The view from the vertical hotel in Sapa 14 floors straight up.
Restaurant is on the 8th floor.
kaminari
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How was your experience on the Russian Ural? Look forward to more pictures & stories!
Best regards,
hahmule
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our accommodation for the night
our hosts, good food, and prodigious amounts of ziel, pronounced zeal, VN for moonshine, usually made from corn, but here made with casaba root, (nasty tasting), and rice, (very nice).
Our sweep rider, medic, mechanic, translator, all round magnificent guy, simply goes by Kung.
The two in the middle is a couple from Australia
The Ziel was a flowin
hahmule
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I tried my hand at the grating operation.
hahmule
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A Class
Hey mista! you want to buy a cobra?
The girl on the right is Leung. She is 15 and five days per week she works on the family farm. Five nights per week she makes stuff to sell to tourists two days per week. Despite constant hard work, she is sweet as can be. We are truly blessed.
the border with China at Lao Cai and the defacto end of our trip. We board the train along with our bikes and take the overnight back to Hanoi.
We returned to Hanoi to a light rain at 5:30 in the morning. My trusty steed after 7 days riding.
I hope you enjoyed the photo trip to northwest Vietnam. I enjoyed reliving it.
